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The word 'moontin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
moontinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2144
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 107.1 3 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 72.7 4 1

Occurrences of moontin in Corpus

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Shetland

Sinclair, Lise Juist laek Maunna, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, poetry
Heem fae Da Fuyra’s moontin-tappit haaf
1 matches

General Northern

Strachan, Shane Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Hert o the Moontin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
Grunite fae the hert o the moontin on page 89

6 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
hens. It sut ablow tha Rocky Moontin wi gressy fiels tae tha aist
’t in a snare oan tha Rocky Moontin,” tha oulwife sayed. She ki
thur’s a toonlan ahint tha moontin — it maun hae been a boadie
3 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
an iverie moontin an knowe levelt oot; on page 73
e an bye Jesus went oot tae a moontin for tae pray tae God, an he k on page 79
tèr, James an Jhone up tae a moontin tae pray. An whaniver he wus on page 86

4 matches

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